Craig Burdine's father: 'This is my last chance'

Grand jury to hear evidence today

3:48 AM,
May 6, 2014

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In the nearly seven years since his son died, Jess Burdine has spent his life savings trying to prove Sandusky County law enforcement officers killed his son.

Burdine, 80, Oak Harbor, spent $391,000 on a federal wrongful death lawsuit against Sandusky County that a judge dismissed in 2012 after Burdine said he ran out of money and his lawyer stopped working for him.

He has read document after document regarding his son's arrest, the events of that August night and how his son died. He asked others to review and reopen the case, and the Ohio Attorney General's Office agreed to look into it last ...